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Upon Sappho Sweetly Playing And Sweetly Singing

by Robert Herrick, 1648

When thou dost play and sweetly sing —
Whether it be the voice or string
Or both of them that do agree
Thus to entrance and ravish me —
This, this I know, I’m oft struck mute,
And die away upon thy lute.

Published in Hesperides
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